Thursday, February 1, 2018

Hebrew's Got Your Goat

Arabic has
all three Hebrew "goat" words.عَنْزَة anzais the nasalizedעז[A]iZ . A he-goat is تَيْسtays(see "DASH").The Arabic kid-goat is a gidye, like
the Germanic GD/T
below.

AramaicגדיGiDeeY
(as in the Hebrew of Genesis 38:23)andגדיא

GaD’Yah (little goats, the kids of goats or people).Armenianayts is agoat. The Basque goat, ahuntz,nasalizesעזGHaiZ, goat, she-goat.Chichewa (Hamitic or African goat: mbuzi.The Estonian goat is
a kitse. GermanZiege seems
unrelated to koza (goat in Slavic - similar to “goat” words in Turkish (teke ,
he-goat, a reverse גדיGiDeeY), Hungarian
and Modern Greek).ZG is
more easilythe reverse of עזGHaiZ(goat - Genesis38:17). Estonian also has a reversed sokkFor theע-ז Ayin-Zayin “strength” or
“impudence” of עזיםGHeeZeeYM,
goats (Exodus 12:5), see "GAUZE" and GESUNDHEITat “HEALTH.”

The Greek
generic goat is gida
γίδα < גדיGiDeeY, kid of goat.

HottentotKudu
is an antelope.This is a גדיGiDeeY(goat/kid)word, as the Hottentots and some other cultures do not
differentiate a goat from a gazelle. Hungarian
goat: kecske.